Healthcare, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(24), С. 2550 - 2550

Опубликована: Дек. 18, 2024

Background: Visual impairment can significantly impact an individual’s daily activities. Patients require regular monitoring, typically occurring within hospital eye services. Capacity constraints have necessitated innovative solutions to improve patient care. Existing digital rely on task-based home monitoring such as visual acuity testing. These active involvement from patients and do not offer indication of quality life. Digital phenotyping refers the use personal devices quantify passive behaviour for detecting clinically significant changes in vision act biomarkers disease. Its uniqueness lies ability detect passively. The objective was co-design accessible smartphone app (OverSight) purposes people with sight impairment. Methods: Development OverSight included stakeholder consultations following principles user-centred design. Apple iOS software frameworks (HealthKit, ResearchKit, SensorKit) a SwiftUI developer toolkit were used enable collection data streams. Accessibility usability assessed using System Usability Scale (SUS) feedback 3-month pilot study. Consultations informed design OverSight, including preferred survey scheduling relevancy support resources. Results: Twenty visually impaired participants (mean age 42 ± 19 years) recruited average score SUS 76.8 (±8.9), indicating good usability. There statistically moderate negative correlation between scores both better (r = −0.494; p ≤ 0.001) worse −0.421; 0.001). Conclusions: offers promising potential collecting patient-generated health Through further testing validation, this novel approach care may ultimately provide opportunities remote ophthalmology.

Язык: Английский